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altairprimetoday at 7:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

> We found a remote access implant hidden inside [email protected], an npm package that copies the popular mathjs library.

The NPM package not named in the clickbait-y post title is “[email protected]”, for those who run into this particular site obstacle; the later packages also named are “mathsbase” and “math-universe”. (EDIT: I see the submission title has been updated, so that’s my complaint addressed, thanks mods!)

Safedep, if you’re reading this, perhaps you should reconsider having that site feature applied to your post — or if it’s something you enabled in, say, Cloudflare, perhaps file a support ticket noting that their email protection is hiding package version strings.


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QuantumNomad_today at 7:54 PM

Probably Cloudflare. For me it shows the package name rather than a redaction. But from memory, Cloudflare email protection redacts it that way in the HTML and then adds a little JS to put it back in which might also do some kind of check to see if it thinks you are a real user before unredacting it.